Therapeutic Coaching

When we look at our lives more holistically we may realize that we have overlooked important aspects of it by our strive for survival until we find ourselves no longer fulfilled or healthy as we have lost the contact with our own nature.

This can be the reality of anyone who grew up in a context governed by fear and insecurity rather than by creativity and self-expression. However, when we realize that we are the only ones who can overcome those influences that have "domesticated" our beings we aloud our creativity to flow again.

Through this process we raise awareness about the importance of our consciousness and accept the fact that some of our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are no longer consistent with whom we really are neither with what we really expect from life.

Furthermore, as much as we get to know ourselves we may decided to follow the way back to our essence and starting to pay more attention to our instincts, and it is here when therapeutic coaching emerges to support us to make this transition back to our real self.

Therapeutic coaching is an ongoing partnership of trust, encouragement and support that helps us to acknowledge our strengths, generating new resources for the achievement of our goals in the here-and-now. It is through this process of self-realization that we take the control over our actions to improve the quality of our lives.

In this context therapeutic coaching invites us to know more about ourselves and our values, creating a space where we can explore our goals, plan how we are going to achieve them and finally transform them into reality. Here, the life coach facilitates our personal, professional and transpersonal growth through the contact with our most genuine truth.

After over ten years of evidence based practice coaching differs from other types of therapy because its principle is to help us to explore our potentialities in order to create a healthier and joyful life.

Transforming Our Habits

Have you ever realized how intrinsic our habits can be in our daily life that we don’t even recognize them? And what about the impact that they can have in regarding to living the life that we really want. Are they positive?

Mostly they are familiar and hence give us a ‘sense of control’ in our routine, but have you ever thought that to grow we need to allow ourselves to explore the unknown? And if our habits give us a sense of familiarity, what about to go beyond them? Be aware of what really matters to us means having the choice to open new possibilities.

So, maybe it’s time to think about which contributions those habits bring to the achievement of our aspirations. If they don’t take from us the time that we could be using to act towards our goals that is fine. The problem is when they do stop us to act productively – what happen most of the time.

If we understand the importance of our habits we may realize that we can convert them in our favour. For example, if we know that to be more confident to our next presentation we need to cover a more extensive bibliography but we don’t really have the habit to read, we can try to transform the reading process as an activity that consciously was chosen to benefit us toward our personal or professional success.

On the other hand we don’t need to change our habits from one day to another. The process is gradual but consistent. So, for example, if we realize that the time we spend on the transport could be a good opportunity to read, the challenge would be to make it constant, especially because it will be generating a positive outcome due a conscious choice. However, if reading is still a boring activity we can start from the subjects that most interest us until reading becomes a pleasant habit.

Furthermore, to transform our habits we need to be at the control of our attention and hence of our actions, what allow us to optimize our time to focus in what is important to us, increasing not just our sense of achievement but generating a positive progress towards our dreams, where we can expanding our experiences and hence fulfilling our lives. However, to achieve this desired state of mind we may need personal support and coaching can be seen here as the most unique partnership to help us to make those changes happen.

It is this process of supporting that offer us the opportunity to commit ourselves loud, where we know that someone is there standing for us, helping us to see new perspectives. The coach assists us to design a future path but also helps us to carry out actions in the present, so we are more likely to achieve our desired objectives.